when president clinton appointed him to the post of u.s. attorney for the district of columbia. in 1997, president clinton promoted him to deputy attorney general of the united states. in july 2001, he joined a washington, d.c., law firm. in 2008, president barack obama nominated him to be the 82nd attorney general, a nomination confirmed by the u.s. senate. general holder is the first african-american to serve in this critical post. he oversees the efforts of federal prosecutors, investigators, analysts, and fbi agents who work on counterterrorism. during his tenure, the justice department s work has been marked by significant national- security achievements, successfully confronting some of the most significant terrorist threats since 9/11. strengthening the department s decade-long track record of successfully prosecuting terrorists in our federal court. dismantling a number of potentially deadly plots. he has forged and strengthen the international partnerships that are p
1:30 p.m. to be out at 1:30 p.m. the will reconvene there. we will get under way. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2011] on newsmakers the chairman of the democratic congressional campaign committee talks about getting ready for to dollars and 12. today it 6:00 p.m. eastern on c- span. talks are getting ready for 2012. it is not on the one of the major challenges facing us in this country but also higher education. that is how we maintain a healthy lifestyle and get kids to have the strength in the judgment to say no. the president of southern methodist university in dallas. tonight, discussing today s college students, his school as the site of the presidential library, and his own road to smu. on c-span s q&a. treasury secretary timothy geithner and does the president s plan for the future of fannie and freddie mac. speaking of the brookings institution, he talked about the future of t
but that s the type of discretion we need to have, just not parading out a whole series of different ideas unconnected to anything in particular. there s another question coming but can i just sneak in, you mentioned the 13-3 is gone and that the t.a.r.p. was helpful. though t.a.r.p. was very hard to get, took lot of political effort to get congress to pass it do you think with 13-3 gone we still have enough tools to deal with these rare but very severe crises? i don t think that if you have a committee of diverse people that you could get 13-3 acted in a timely manner. i mean, don kohn is sitting there. don probably could tell you that it wasn t self-evident to everybody that that was the desirable thing to do and the reason why that happens is that we all have this very unusual psychological problem. we believe we can forecast. and we can t. and in a financial crisis, by definition, is a dramatic decline in asset prices virtually overnight, and if that were anticipated
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when, why, a shocking new report from a court appointed examiner reveals new details on who might be to blame for the firm s collapse. the u.s. economy for sale, will the american consumer buy the role as economic savior? shopping for the real story on retail as squawk box begins right now and as i talk above a den of these people behind me. sorry. sorry. good morning, everybody. welcome to squawk box right here on cnbc. it is friday and we are raring to go. i m becky quick along with joe kernen and carl quintanilla. steve liesman is on set with us. we ll have more from him in just a moment. first, though, let s set the agenda for the trading day ahead. the dominating theme is going to be the consumer. two key economic reports. we have february sales coming out at 8:30 eastern time. then the latest read on consumer sentiment at 9:55. many chain stores reported stronger than expected sales for february. but some of the economists that were polled reported the headlin